What’s in the Listening paper? The Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper has four parts. For each part students have to listen to a recorded text or texts and answer some questions. Each recording is heard twice.
Summary
Time allowed:
About 30 minutes, plus 6 minutes to copy answers onto the answer sheet
Number of parts:
4
Number of questions:
25
Marks:
25% of total
Part 1 (Multiple choice)
What’s in Part 1?
Seven short recordings. For each recording there is a question and three pictures (A, B or C). Students have to listen to the recordings and choose the right answer.
What does the student have to practise?
Listening to find key information.
How many questions are there?
7
How many marks are there?
One mark for each correct answer.
ACTIVITY: Look at Part 1: Now look at Part 1 from the sample Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper.
Part 2 (Multiple choice)
What’s in Part 2?
A longer recording (one person speaking or an interview) and six questions. Students have to listen to the recording and choose the right answer (A, B or C) for each question.
What does the student have to practise?
Listening to find specific information and detailed meaning.
How many questions are there?
6
How many marks are there?
One mark for each correct answer.
ACTIVITY: Look at Part 2: Now look at Part 2 from the sample Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper.
Part 3 (Gap-fill)
What’s in Part 3?
A longer monologue (one person speaking) and a page of notes which summarise the text. Six pieces of information are missing from the notes. Students have to listen to the recording and fill in the missing information.
What does the student have to practise?
Listening for information.
How many questions are there?
6
How many marks are there?
One mark for each correct answer.
ACTIVITY: Look at Part 3: Now look at Part 3 from the sample Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper.
Part 4 (True/False)
What’s in Part 4?
An informal conversation and six sentences. Students have to listen to the conversation and decide if each sentence is true or false.
What does the student have to practise?
Listening for detailed meaning, attitude and opinion.
How many questions are there?
6
How many marks are there?
One mark for each correct answer.
ACTIVITY: Look at Part 4: Now look at Part 4 from the sample Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper.
What’s in the Listening paper? The Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Listening paper has four parts. For each part students have to listen to a recorded text or texts and answer some questions. Each recording is heard twice.
Summary
Part 1 (Multiple choice)Part 2 (Multiple choice)
Part 3 (Gap-fill)
Part 4 (True/False)
WHERE CAN YOU DO THE ACTIVITIES?
LISTENING SAMPLES
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2SAMPLE 3
SAMPLE 4